What Is an HP Palmtop?
A palmtop computer, also known as a hand-held personal computer (PC), is a type of computer that is smaller than a laptop or netbook and is designed to easily be held in the palm of the hand. Hewlett Packard® (HP®) palmptops generally are available in five main versions and come in numerous different models. HP palmtops set themselves apart from other hand-held PCs by having a large screen and a keyboard. The final HP palmtop to be released was the HP 660Lx in 2005. Advances in personal digital assistants (PDA) and smartphone technology have played a part in edging palmtops out of the mainstream market. The HP 660Lx has a 256 color display shown in a 640×240 pixel video graphics array (VGA), a fax and modem card, internal memory, and a number of productivity software packages. This HP palmtop uses Windows® CE 2.0, which is an embedded Windows® operating system (OS) that should be familiar to most Windows® users. There are three different input methods with an HP palmtop — touchscreen,
